We sometimes imagine that such oppressive laws were put quickly into full force by greedy landowners. But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one ...

Last year, voters in Vermont, Oregon, Tennessee and Alabama approved historic ballot measures that removed slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime from their state constitutions, ...

BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSTITUTION. >> CARRYING A BELL FROM THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION, SHE IS SEEKING TO OUTLAW SLAVERY AS A CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT. >> OUR CONSTITUTION DOES PROHIBIT SLAVERY AND ...

Out of the more than three quarters of a million words in the Bible, Christian slaveholders—and, if asked, most slaveholders ...

Reparations for Post-Slavery Indentured Servitude: Case Made. The paper was presented in person at the international conference on Slavery, Indentured labor, and Their Impact on Present Societies.

In California and Nevada, so-called slavery "loopholes" are on this year's ballot. Much like the 13th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, many states across the country have an exception for slavery ...

Last Monday, a federal judge requested briefing on whether the Thirteenth Amendment protects a right to abortion. This raised a few eyebrows. The Thirteenth Amendment, ratified in 1865, says nothing ...

A progressive prison reform that was on the ballot in California and Nevada this month met drastically different outcomes after the votes were counted: In California, voters chose to keep the status ...

(AP) - Voters in four states have approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fifth ...

Nevada voters will decide whether to get rid of slavery and involuntary servitude as a form of criminal punishment from the state constitution on the 2024 ballot, part of a push among some states to ...

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